Privacy Tool Kit

Privacy is essential to the exercise of free speech, free thought, and free association. Lack of privacy and confidentiality chills users' choices, thereby suppressing access to ideas. The possibility of surveillance, whether direct or through access to records of speech, research and exploration, undermines a democratic society. - Privacy: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights

Permission is granted to libraries to reproduce the Privacy Tool Kit. Download the updated Privacy Tool kit PDF. If you have questions about library privacy policies or the Privacy Toolkit, please write the Office for Intellectual Freedom at oif@ala.org or call 800-545-2433 x4224.

Revised by the IFC Privacy Subcommittee and approved by the Intellectual Freedom Committee January 2014